Tag: Music for strings

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  Sweet sorrow

  March 3, 2014

  Keyboard, Orchestral, Solo

  Bach, Bartók, Book II, Concerto for orchestra, Music for strings, percussion and celeste, Prelude & Fugue II in f#, Well-tempered Klavier

  ‘When Bach writes of sorrow, it never crushes us. Perhaps because there is no trace of bitterness. ’ Wanda Landowska ‘Contemplative’, ‘remotely beautiful’, ‘a calm and floating unearthliness’ – descriptions of the f# Prelude from Book 2 vie with one another in a futile attempt to capture an emotional world that exists in music, and only in music. And…